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The outflow from the Sea of Okhotsk to the North Pacific is important in characterising the surface-to-intermediate-depth
water masses in the Pacific Ocean. The two basins are separated by the Kuril Islands with numerous straits, among which the
Bussol and the Kruzenshterna Straits are deeper than 1000 m. The physics governing the transport between the two basins is
complicated, but when the semidiurnal and diurnal tides are subtracted, the observed density and velocity structures across
the Bussol Strait suggest a significant contribution from geostrophic balance. Using a two-layer model with the interface
at 27.5σ
θ
, part of the upper layer transport that is not driven by tides is estimated using two previously unexplored data sets: outputs
from the Ocean General Circulation Model for Earth Simulator (OFES), and historical hydrographic data. The Pacific water flows
into the Sea of Okhotsk through the northeastern straits. The greatest inflow is through the Kruzenshtern Strait, but the
OFES results show that the contributions from other shallower straits are almost half of the Kruzenshtern inflow. Similarly,
the outflow from the Sea of Okhotsk is through the southwestern straits of the Kuril Islands with the largest Bussol Strait
contributing 60% of the total outflow. The OFES and hydrographic estimates agree that the exchange is strongest in February
to March, with an inflow of about −6 to −12 Sv (negative indicates the flow from the North Pacific, 1 Sv = 106 m3s−1), and an outflow from the Sea of Okhotsk of about +8 to +9 Sv (positive indicates the flow from the Sea of Okhotsk), which
is weakest in summer (−3 to +1 Sv through the northeastern straits and +0 to +3 Sv through the southwestern straits). The
estimated seasonal variation is consistent with a simple analytic model driven by the difference in sea surface height between
the two basins. 相似文献
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We estimated spatio-temporal evolution of Coulomb stress within the subducted Pacific slab in Hokkaido from the analysis of seismicity rate change. For this purpose we used earthquake catalog from the Institute of Seismology and Volcanology (ISV), Hokkaido University for the period 1993/4/1–2006/12/31 after relocating to compensate location errors due to the heterogeneous P- and S-wave structure beneath Hokkaido. We found that spatial pattern of Coulomb stress change inverted from the seismicity rate change is comparable with static change in Coulomb stress estimated from dislocation models. Our results and analyses reveal important insights on spatio-temporal pattern of deformation of the subducted Pacific slab in terms of Coulomb stress change. We found that the 2003 Tokachi Oki earthquake (Mw = 8.0) pervasively perturbed Coulomb stress in a regional scale with a significant impact to trigger the 2004 Kushiro Oki earthquake. The 2004 Kushiro Oki earthquake (Mw = 7.0) is another significant stressing event that changed the pattern of Coulomb stress in the area. We found that stressing events with magnitude smaller than 7.0 has minimal impact on Coulomb stress change in the Pacific slab. Similarly, comparatively deep focused large earthquakes could not change Coulomb stress significantly. Further the pattern of Coulomb stress change after the 2003 Tokachi Oki earthquake correlates the pattern of afterslip distribution in Hokkaido. 相似文献
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M. R. Ramesh Kumar S. M. Pednekar M. Katsumata M. K. Antony Y. Kuroda A. S. Unnikrishnan 《Theoretical and Applied Climatology》2006,85(1-2):117-122
Summary The diurnal cycle of rainfall over the eastern equatorial Indian Ocean was studied for the period 23rd October 2001 to 31st October 2003 using hourly data from the Triton buoy positioned at 1.5° S and 90° E. An analysis of the active and weak spells
of rainfall for different seasons revealed peaks in the late evening hours in Winter, Summer and Fall and in early morning
hours (in Spring) in 2002. The active spell of rainfall peaked in the afternoon hours, during Winter, Spring and Summer in
2003, which agrees with the previous results of Janowiak et al. (1994). An analysis of rainfall events showed that Fall 2002
had a maximum number of rainfall events (90) and minimum (60) were observed in Spring 2003. Further it was found that the
majority of rain events (>60%) were less than 3 hours in duration throughout the study period. The longer duration rainfall
events (i.e. rain events greater than 6 hour duration) contributed significantly to Spring 2002 (20% of the total rainfall)
and Winter 2003 (21% of the total rainfall). Harmonic analysis of the hourly rainfall data for different seasons revealed
that diurnal harmonic explains more than 80% of the variance for all seasons. Furthermore, the diurnal harmonic has a maximum
amplitude for all seasons except summer, where the semidiurnal and six hourly harmonics are significant. 相似文献
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We used Argo float drift data to estimate average ocean currents at 1000 dbar depth from early 2000 to early 2010. Our estimates
cover the global oceans, except for marginal seas and ice-covered regions, at a resolution of 1 degree in latitude and longitude.
The estimated flow field satisfies the horizontal boundary condition of no flow through the topography, and is in geostrophic
balance. We also estimated the uncertainty in the average flow field, which had a typical magnitude of 0.03 ms−1. The uncertainty is relatively large (>0.03 ms−1 in both the zonal and meridional directions) near the Equator and in the Southern Ocean. The array bias, which is the bias
due to the horizontal gradient in the spatial density of the float data, is generally negligible, with an average magnitude
outside the equatorial region of 0.007 ms−1, becoming relatively large (>0.01 ms−1) only near the coastal regions. The measurement uncertainty is assumed to be spatially uniform and includes errors due to
the Argos positioning system, internal clock drift, unknown surface drift before submerging or after surfacing, and unknown
drifts during ascent and descent between the surface and the parking depth. We found that the overall uncertainty was not
sensitive to the assumed value of the measurement uncertainty (ɛ
m
)1/2 when (ɛ
m
)1/2 < 0.01 ms−1 but it increased with (ɛ
m
)1/2 for (ɛ
m
)1/2 > 0.01 ms−1. 相似文献
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Using a vertically two-dimensional, two-layer model, we have analytically examined the generation mechanism of a nonzero Eulerian
residual flow by strong tide-topography interaction in a narrow channel where the frictional effect is not included. In this
case, tidally generated baroclinic disturbances are forced non-uniformly in space and time while being advected by a strong tidal flow over the non-uniform slope of the bottom topography. Consequently, nonzero Eulerian residual flow results when averaged over one tidal period.
Although the time average of the velocity field is thus nonzero, the associated Eulerian residual transport in each layer
is compensated by a Stokes transport so that no Lagrangian residual transport results in both layers. This warns us that simple
time averaging of the velocity data obtained at a fixed mooring station might lead to a spurious material transport.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Kazuya Ono Kay I. Ohshima Tokihiro Kono Motoyo Itoh Katsuro Katsumata Yuri N. Volkov Masaaki Wakatsuchi 《Journal of Oceanography》2007,63(2):281-291
Intensive CTD observations that resolve the mean and tidal components were done with a total of 129 casts in summer of 2001
at Bussol’ Strait. Based on these data and all the available historical data, we have revealed the outflow from Bussol’ Strait
to the Pacific and the significant diapycnal mixing in the strait. In the range 27.0−27.3σ
θ
, the water property in Bussol’ Strait is almost identical to that of the Kuril Basin Water (KBW). The KBW out of Bussol’
Strait forms a water mass front with the East Kamchatka Current Water (EKCW). This front also corresponds to the front of
the Oyashio Current. In the lower part of the intermediate layer (27.3−27.6σ
θ
), part of the water in the strait is characterized by lower temperature, lower salinity, and higher dissolved oxygen than
that of KBW and EKCW, which can be explained only by the diapycnal mixing. The strong diapycnal mixing in the strait can also
be shown by the density inversion, occurrence frequency of which corresponds well to the amplitude distribution of the diurnal
current. In the density range 26.7−26.8σ
θ
, the water in Bussol’ Strait has the lowest potential vorticity, suggesting that it is a source region of the low potential
vorticity water. Seasonal change of the water can reach up to a density of 26.8σ
θ
around Bussol’ Strait. This leads us to propose that the combination of winter convection and local tidal mixing leads to
effective ventilation of the intermediate layer. 相似文献
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—We have found that the M w = 8.3 Kurile earthquake on October 4, 1994 followed an outstanding seismic quiescence starting 5–6 years before the mainshock near the ruptured area. We have analyzed three independent seismic catalogs Institute of Seismology and Volcanology, Hokkaido University (ISV), Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and International Seismology Center (ISC). In spite of selecting different magnitude bands and time windows all three catalogs presented the common feature of the seismic quiescence. This fact strongly suggests that the seismic quiescence should not be a man-made change but actually occurred. Moreover we have confirmed that the seismic quiescence was the most significant and the earthquake was the largest in the past twenty-five years in this region. Therefore we confidently interpret this seismic quiescence as an indication of a preparation process for the M w = 8.3 Kurile earthquake. 相似文献
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